Fifth Step; Make The Communication Between The Pda And The Pm7000 - Ranger PM7000 Start Manual

Fifth Step:

Make the communication between the PDA and the PM7000

Once the PDA is charged, make your connection with the logger.
Prepare the PM7000
Opening the PM7000 lid will stimulate it and it will wake up, nudge the Bluetooth into "Discovery
Mode" and go back to sleep to conserve battery. The Bluetooth LED should flash twice every 4
seconds to show that the Bluetooth is awake. The Bluetooth will remain in discovery mode for
about 1 hour after the lid is opened. (Once the logger is stimulated you may close the lid again.)
Prepare the PDA
Switch on the PDA. The on/off button position will vary but in the PDA supplied it is on the right
hand side at the top.
Using the stylus provided with the PDA (or if your stylus is missing your finger nail will do just as
well) touch "START" or the little Windows symbol at the top left of the screen. This will list the
principle functions of the PDA.
Look down the list for "PmScreen", the application programme that brings the live PM7000
screens onto your computer. Touch "PmScreen".
You will be invited to select the relevant COM Port. The COM port is COM 6 on the HP iPAQ114.
Touch on "Reconnect to COM6". (Other PDA's may use COM8)
If the PDA and logger are within range of each other, nominally within 10 meters (30 feet) (but it
may be more in open line of site conditions or less if one is shadowed from the other), and if the
logger is in discovery mode (the blue light on the front panel is flashing), the PDA should offer (in
the form of a list) any Bluetooth devices in range including the logger. The reference to the logger
will come in the form of PM7000SN0123.
Depending upon how the PDA has been left, this list may be in icon form, in which case the Serial
Number part of the text may have been truncated. This will not matter if you have only one
PM7000 but it could be ambiguous if you have more than one. To avoid the latter you may wish to
list a number of loggers in purely text form. To change between icon and text listing, touch on the
View option on the bottom right of the screen and select the "view by text".
Touch on the Serial Number of the logger you wish to talk to. This will cause the PDA to connect
to the logger and the Bluetooth light on the logger will go solid blue. To start with it may say the
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